Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; and with all your getting get understanding.
Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd preferred to talk.
Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other. It embraces judgment, discernment, comprehension. It is a gestalt or oneness, and integrated wholeness.
Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.
Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.
Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.
Wisdom overcomes fortune.
Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil — not the strength to choose between the two.
Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.
Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is a tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.
Wise care keeps what it has gained.
Wise men are not always silent, but they know when to be.
Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
Wise men still seek Him today.
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
| Quotations 181 to 200 of 202 | First | < Previous | Next > | Last |